Stan Shebs wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
[...] the ideas of Stan and Delirium to create different Wikipedias for different cultures rather than different languages, which I think is a bad idea.
Whoa whoa whoa, you've completely misinterpreted what I said. All I said was that language and culture are intertwined, even if you don't want them to be. That used to be a truism in linguistics back when I studied it, but that was twenty years ago and maybe new theories are in vogue, I don't know.
I think that the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis has had some severe criticism, but I believe that it still has a role. One still has to avoid reading too much into it as Mark seems to have done.
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